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How To Prepare Your Company for a Recession or Economic Downturn

Great Place to Work

s last recession: the Great Recession of 2007–2009. Thrive” describes publicly held companies in our data set that achieved returns of 14% or greater between 2007 and 2009.). From January 3, 2006, to February 1, 2014, the Thriving group saw their stock performance increase 35%, while the S&P 500 had just a 9% gain.

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I Want my Dad Back: One Father’s Struggle and Journey with Depression and Anxiety

SHRM

Andrew trying to keep pace with his son Luke While I was stationed in Iraq in 2006 and 2007, my then 3-year-old son, Luke, would end each video that he, his baby sister and his mom sent me with the same five words: “I want my dad back.” He missed his dad, and there was no way to measure how much I missed all of them.

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5 Ways Workplace Culture Drives Business Profitability

Great Place to Work

stock decline of the S&P 500 from 2007 to 2009.They The S&P 500 recovered from 2006 with a 9% gain by February of 2014, but the thriving companies gained 35%. A group of 69 companies that researchers identified as “thriving” didn’t follow the 35.5% They saw an increase of 14.4%.

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How to Support Employees As They Face Rising Inflation

Great Place to Work

Great Place to Work® analyzed data from companies before, during and after the Great Recession of 2007–2009, spanning 15 years from 2006 to 2021. While the S&P 500 suffered a 36% decline in value from 2007–2009, companies who supported all employees gained 14%.

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An “Action Bias” Can Be Counterproductive

Workplace Psychology

In a 2007 study, researchers analyzed 286 professional soccer penalty kicks. Even though it would have been better (based on the current distribution of kicks in the study) for the goalkeepers to stay in the center, they almost always jumped to one of the sides (Bar-Eli, Azar, Ritov, Keidar-Levin, & Schein, 2007). References.

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Labor Day and the NFL

True Faith HR

The 2006 Heisman Trophy winner, Tim Tebow, is unemployed. The #3 pick in the 2007 NFL draft, Vince Young, was cut by the Green Bay Packers. According to Peter King , Five quarterbacks picked in the top 50 of the last seven drafts were cut: Vince Young and Matt Leinart (2006), Brady Quinn (2007) and Tim Tebow and Jimmy Clausen (2010).

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The Unofficial (and totally non-scientific) History of HR Blogging

Robin Schooling

The Carnival was started in 2007 by Suzanne Lucas (@RealEvilHRLady) who passed the reins over to Alison Green (@AskAManager) in 2008 before everything was handed off to Shauna Moerke-Griffis (@HR_Minion) in 2009; in January 2016 Shauna passed on the stewardship to me…and that means I get to plan the festivities! wikipedia).